ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S937

Clinical - CNS

ESTRO 2024

Figure 1: local re-irradiation with PBT following photon RT

Keywords: re-irradiation, proton therapy, children

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Digital Poster

Measuring changes in the brain tumour micro-environment using microstructure MRI

Najmus S Iqbal 1 , Marco Palombo 2 , Derek K Jones 2 , Daniel Alexander 3 , Elisenda Bonet-Carne 3 , Laura Panagiotaki 3 , John Staffurth 1 , Emiliano Spezi 4 , James R Powell 1 1 Velindre University NHS Trust, Clinical Oncology, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 2 Cardiff University, School of Psychology & Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 3 University College London, Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, London, United Kingdom. 4 Cardiff University, School of Engineering, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Purpose/Objective:

Key to improving our understanding of response and non-response to treatment and in developing new treatments for brain tumours lies in improving our understanding of how tumours interact with the surrounding brain. Complex interactions between cancer and host cells in the tumour micro-environment (TME) are important drivers